Self-Portraits by Invisible PeopleArts & Leisure, October 23, 2005The Chiapas Photography Project has worked with more than 250 Maya photographers from 10 different ethnic groups, producing one international art star along the way

Portrait of the Artist as a 17th-Century OprahArts & Leisure, June 5, 2005A semi-serious discussion of Roger Housden's all-too-serious self-help book How Rembrandt Reveals Your Beautiful, Imperfect Self: Life Lessons from the Master

Trendy Artists Pick Up an Old-Fashioned HabitArts & Leisure, April 17, 2005 • cover storyA group of established artists have been gathering for invitation-only figure drawing sessions, an exercise that had fallen out of fashion.

Labels: The Art Form That Dares Not Speak Its NameMuseums, March 30, 2005Why has 'craft' became a dirty word? This question has bedeviled its practioners and museum insiders in recent years, as a number of prominent institutions devoted to handmade arts have downplayed or dropped the word from their names.

Marlene Dumas's Number Comes UpArts & Leisure, March 27, 2005A few years ago, her paintings sold respectably. Now she's breaking records. Is it long-delayed justice – or sheer luck?

If Lewis and Clark Could See It NowArts & Leisure, January 23, 2005Photographer Greg MacGregor retraces Lewis & Clark's footsteps and shows their route exactly as he found it – dams, nuclear power plants, highway rest stops, and all